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Resources for Improving TANF and Child Support Programs

This website contains resources to help improve TANF and child support programs by moving them in a trauma-informed and anti-racist direction.

If there is information that you need that is not available on the website, please reach out to a CBPP staff member.

Temporary Assistance for Needy Families

Asset Limits
Drug Felony Ban
Drug Testing
Family Cap Policies
Alternatives to Using the Word "Welfare"
Performance-Based Contracts
Child Welfare
Diaper Need
First Year of Life
TANF and Race Vision Series
Welfare Rules Database
Contingency Fund
Trauma-Informed Resources
COLAs
Work Requirements: Work Verification Simplification
Characteristics
Assistance vs. Non-Assistance
EBT Cash Withdrawal Restrictions
Earned Income Disregards
Spending: Third-Party MOE
Housing Supplements
Intro to TANF
Spending: The Basics
Work Requirements: Ending Full Family Sanctions
Application Approvals and Denials
Solely State Funded Programs
Perils of Block Granting
Work Requirements: What Federal Law Requires of States
Work Requirements: Caseload Reduction Credit
Work Requirements: Penalties
Work Requirements: The Basics
Work Requirements: Key CBPP Reports
Work Requirements: Increase in Deep Poverty
Benefits: Payments to SNAP Recipients
Separate State Programs
Work Requirements: HHS Data
Benefits: Special Purpose Payments for TANF Recipients
Spending: Excess MOE
Benefit Cliffs
Benefits: Non-Recurrent Short-Term Benefits (NRSTs)
Work Requirements: Sanctions
Benefits: Cash Matters
Time Limits
Benefits: Examples of State Fact Sheets

Child Support

Foster Care Charges
Tax Offset Option
Match Any Match All